SoftBank Group will be the first to own Nvidia's Blackwell chips.Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times; Chelsea Jia Feng/BISoftBank is the first to buy Nvidia's Blackwell chips, the companies said Wednesday.The chips will power a supercomputer in Japan.The collab comes amid skyrocketing demand for Nvidia chips as companies scramble to secure supplies.SoftBank Group is the first customer to use Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which will be used to develop an artificial intelligence supercomputer in Japan.The companies plan to build the system — which they call Japan's most powerful supercomputer — in early 2025.